Friday 2010-10-15 Dev. update and Discussion

[kestrel79]

Oleg,

Wow. Great pictures! And these are from an OLD build. You can notice the terrain looks more crisp, more detailed in these shots over the others. Also the ground textures aren't as bright, very good coloring!

All I really want to see or should I say hear now is some sound! Would be nice to hear some flybys, or some guns firing. It will really add to the feel.

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by kestrel79

Oleg,

Wow. Great pictures! And these are from an OLD build. You can notice the terrain looks more crisp, more detailed in these shots over the others. Also the ground textures aren't as bright, very good coloring!

All I really want to see or should I say hear now is some sound! Would be nice to hear some flybys, or some guns firing. It will really add to the feel.

I will ask our sound engineer to preprare maybe something for the next updates in time.

[GBrutus]

I really like the last couple of shots, the towns are looking quite convincing now. Thanks for the update.

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

I will ask our sound engineer to prepare maybe something for the next updates in time.

Wow that would be great if we could have some sounds etc so we can see what the sound engine can do.
Thank you

[Xilon_x]

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[swiss]

Originally Posted by Xilon_x

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I like the fact your air is falling down to the cliff.

Also I would think the vortex is somewhere else.

Originally Posted by Xilon_x

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Not a problem! Every wind vortex in all of Southern England will be accurately simulated. You just need to upgrade your PC to take advantage of it. . .




Hope you can afford the electric bill required to run IBM's Blue Gene!

***Serious Time***

Xilon_x: you do understand that a lot of the stuff you are asking to be included in a COMPUTER GAME! Are commonly found being simulated by giant arrays of PC's so that companies don't have to rent out wind tunnels? Are you 12 years old or just really dumb? Even with a language barrier (translation troubles) I can't imagine anyone normal really expects this from a COMPUTER GAME.

[airmalik]

Originally Posted by speculum jockey

Xilon_x: you do understand that a lot of the stuff you are asking to be included in a COMPUTER GAME! Are commonly found being simulated by giant arrays of PC's so that companies don't have to rent out wind tunnels? Are you 12 years old or just really dumb? Even with a language barrier (translation troubles) I can't imagine anyone normal really expects this from a COMPUTER GAME.

To be fair, what he's asking for could be faked without modeling complete weather systems. I have no idea of SoW's internal workings but I'm sure if ridge soaring was deemed important enough, it could be modeled without requiring super computers.

I'd be happy with turbulence while flying behind larger aircraft, through or below clouds and mechanical turbulence over trees etc. near airfields.

[Insuber]

Actually his next request will be to replicate the REAL thermals and winds occurred during the period. This is a serious simulator, not a game, Oleg should not take shortcuts on such key elements.
After all it should be quite easy to recalculate the historical internal energy and motion of every single air molecule, starting from today's state and applying simple and well known physical laws. Boys, THIS would be a serious simulation! :\

[julien673]

Originally Posted by speculum jockey

Not a problem! Every wind vortex in all of Southern England will be accurately simulated. You just need to upgrade your PC to take advantage of it. . .




Hope you can afford the electric bill required to run IBM's Blue Gene!

***Serious Time***

Xilon_x: you do understand that a lot of the stuff you are asking to be included in a COMPUTER GAME! Are commonly found being simulated by giant arrays of PC's so that companies don't have to rent out wind tunnels? Are you 12 years old or just really dumb? Even with a language barrier (translation troubles) I can't imagine anyone normal really expects this from a COMPUTER GAME.

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